It is now 2 minutes 30 seconds to midnight. Alongside the reality of the British and United States governments funding research models to test the robustness of contemporary civilisation, specifically attempts to predict its collapse, we are presented with a series of simulacra within mainstream entertainment that places us at the end of the world as we know it. These narratives may have crept into many aspects of popular culture but the origins can be found in literature; science fiction stories that follow a lone, often male, protagonist as he explores the landscape after a catastrophic event. With an indexical approach to image making, I have positioned myself as the lone protagonist, venturing to collect (visual) artefacts in an attempt to understand ideas of the end of the world as entertainment.

Zombie Apocalypse Survival Experience, Reading 2017

The Last Man, Mary Shelley, Bodleian Library, Oxford 2017

The Machine Stop, Jackons Lane Theatre, London 2017

Cinema seating after a showing of Mad Max, Duke of York Picturehouse, Brighton 2017